REDSTATE'S ERICK ERICKSON < ANDREA SAUL

So Romney press secretary Andrea Saul made a mistake while responding to a question about the latest outrageous ad put out by an Obama superpac in which Mitt Romney is essentially accused of killing a woman. 

For the record, I think that Andrea Saul should lose her job over it.  Or at least be reassigned.  She should have handled the response much better and if this is where her head's at, then she needs to go.

Having said that, however, I find Erickson's ridiculous response to her mistake to be even more damaging to the Romney campaign.

Then the Romney campaign decided to sabotage itself with a mind numbingly bit of spin that may mark the day the Romney campaign died.  

Are you kidding me?  

Yes, Saul stepped on the message and failed to maximize the blowback to Bill Burton's shameless ad.  But in my opinion the embarrassing hysteria demonstrated by Erickson is so over the top that it can only be understood as a veiled threat to withhold support for Romney, which can only help Obama get reelected. Talk about sabotage and giving aide and comfort to the enemy! It's almost as if Erickson is HOPING it's true. I would think that Erickson would be a little more concerned about his OWN credibility.  He's the one playing Obama's game...

Why is Erickson's statement worse than Saul's gaffe?  Because it's based on the false premise that Conservatives would and should stay home on election day because of dissatisfaction with Romney.  Or at least withhold their support for him and focus on other races.  The fact is that it's every Conservative's duty to support the only man who is in the running to defeat Barack Obama.  All of this "Ooo, please Mitt Romney, say something that will 'inspire' us because otherwise we are just incapable of coming up with any reason to vote if you don't" sentiment is pointless, dishonest and harmful to the effort to get regime change in November.  The people who think like this should be ashamed of themselves.

Furthermore, it plays right into the hands of the Dim-o-crats, far more than anything Saul said.  They would love for Republicans to fight each other rather than fighting together against Obama and the Dims.  So even hinting that "the base" (whatever that means) would not fully support the GOP nominee only encourages the Dims to find other ways to create division.

So I unfollowed Erickson on Twitter earlier and I now award him the Private William Hudson Award for his pathetic whining and chicken-little attitude (if not actual sabotage) in the face of adversity.